Tarik Zafer Nursal

Başkent University, Turkey

Tarik Zafer Nursal was born in Mersin, Turkey, in October 1969. He received his Associate degree in a two-year program on administration of health establishments at the Open Education Faculty, Anadolu University, Tepebaşı, Turkey, from 2009 to 2001. Nursal conducted his internship at the Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey, where he specialized in general surgery, from 1993 to 1999. He is, moreover, a Staff General Surgeon at the Başkent University Adana Teaching and Research Center, Adana, Turkey, and he was a Medical Director and a Staff General Surgeon at the Private BSK Metropark Hospital, Adana, Turkey, from 2009 to 2012. He, in addition, worked as an Associate Professor of general surgery, from 2002 to 2005. Nursal is a Member of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery, the Turkish Surgical Society, the Hernia Association, and the Turkish National Board Certification. He is interested in all fields of general and laparoscopic surgery including oncological surgery, burn care, tangential excision, and early grafting.